WASHINGTON, April 14 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service announced that it expects to award a discretionary grant for the acquisition or development of public land for outdoor recreation purposes located within or serving census-delineated urbanized areas. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $13.3 million with a ceiling of $750,000 for each award in the program. The agency said the grant was associated with a) environment and b) natural resource more ST

WASHINGTON, April 14 -- The U.S. Department of State's U.S. Mission to Japan announced that it expects to award up to two discretionary grants for public diplomacy programs. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $15,000 with a ceiling of $10,000 for each award in the program. The agency said the grant was associated with a) arts, b) community development, c) education, d) environment and e) humanities. The funding is open to state, county, city, township and special distri more ST

WASHINGTON, April 12 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey announced that it expects to award a cooperative agreement for the monitoring of Little Colorado River humpback chub in Arizona. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $30,000. The agency said the grant was associated with environment. The funding is open to Native American tribal governments. The agency description of the grant states: "With the completion of the Environmental Impact Stat more ST

WASHINGTON, April 14 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S.Geological Survey announced that it intends to award a $411,900 cooperative agreement to the Humboldt State University of Arcata, California, for characterizing onshore-offshore quaternary deformation and sediment dynamics along the Cascadia margin. The U.S. Geological Survey provided the following overview: "The research objective of this 3-year project is to better understand the geologic record of Quaternary deformation and as more ST

WASHINGTON, April 12 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service announced that it intends to award a $150,000 cooperative agreement to the Michigan Technological University for archeological inventory at the Keweenaw National Historical Park and Isle Royale National Park. The agency description of the grant states: "This project aligns with Statement of Interest (SOI) priorities 1, 3, and 4. The work will enable Keweenaw National Historical Park (KEWE) to make informed and m more ST

WASHINGTON, April 12 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service announced that it intends to award a $27,539 cooperative agreement to the Northern Arizona University for post-fire bird surveys at the Bandelier National Monument in Los Alamos, New Mexico. The funding opportunity number is P18AS00124 (CFDA 15.945). more ST

WASHINGTON, April 13 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey announced that it intends to award a $1.1 million cooperative agreement to the University of Hawaii for research to minimize conflict between the protection of biodiversity and the need for economic growth and DoD operations in Guam and Northern Mariana Islands. The U.S. Geological Survey provided the following overview: "The Mariana Islands include the U.S. Territory of Guam (Guam) and the U.S. Commonwealth of more ST

WASHINGTON, April 13 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey announced that it intends to award a $669,338 cooperative agreement to the University of Hawaii for the development of databases to be used for conservation decisions. The U.S. Geological Survey provided the following overview: "Informed resource management decisions rely on scientific analysis to provide an understanding of alternatives and their consequences. Information (data) plays a crucial role in any sci more ST

WASHINGTON, April 12 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service announced that it intends to award a $500,000 cooperative agreement to the University of Michigan for the identification of factors driving colstridium botulium activities at the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore coastal ecosystem. The agency description of the grant states: "Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (SLBE) has suffered from repeated outbreaks of type E botulism since 2006. Over the last decad more ST

WASHINGTON, April 14 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service announced that it intends to award a $150,000 cooperative agreement to the Regents of the University of Minnesota for the development of a curriculum for experiential place based learning in the nearshore areas between Grand Portage National Monument in Minnesota and Isle Royale National Park in Michigan. The agency description of the grant states: "The primary objective is to seek input and ownership of the cur more ST

WASHINGTON, April 12 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service announced that it intends to award a $192,533 cooperative agreement to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the monitoring of endangered American martens at the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. The agency description of the grant states: "The Recipient is a member of the Northern Great Lakes CESU Master Agreement who was awarded a Master Cooperative Agreement P12AC31164 allowing University of Wisconsin-Mad more ST

WASHINGTON, April 13 -- The U.S. Agency for International Development issued a Request for Information on landscape conservation in western Tanzania. No award amount was specified for this program. The funding opportunity number is RFI-621-18-EG-DA01 (CFDA 98.001). It was posted on April 11 with an application closing date of May 8. For more information, contact David Arnett, darnett@usaid.gov. more ST

WASHINGTON, April 14 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service announced that it intends to award a $3.7 million cooperative agreement to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources for the administration of the Ice Age National Scientific Reserve. The agency description of the grant states: "The public purpose of this project and assistance is to support the State of Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources in its efforts to protect, preserve, and interpret the national more ST